Your Life, the Vector

This East China Normal University study investigated how the brains of bilingual people manage and switch between two languages. They found that specific brain regions work together in a chain: first, an area that monitors attention becomes active, then signals pass to regions controlling language selection and decision-making. The study revealed that the physical connections between brain areas don't simply predict how these regions work together.

This George Mason University study had researchers create a VR experiment in which participants moved through a virtual environment while lying in an MRI scanner. Participants had to either remember how far they traveled (distance) or how long they moved (time) and then recreate that same distance or time. Researchers found that different regions of the brain process distance and duration and created a model.

This Centre for Research in Neuroscience (Lyon) study investigated whether readers' comprehension changes when sentences are highly predictable or unpredictable. Participants read sentences on a screen while their brain activity was monitored. Surprisingly, whether sentences mostly ended as expected or unexpectedly didn't significantly affect how people processed and understood the text.